Essentially every job in our economy has changed overnight. Each of our situations is different. But from talking with clients and extrapolating from current state, here are some common themes.
Intelligent Swarming
“Sensible” Support Policies and their Unintended CX Consequences
TL;DR: It’s better to trust and empower Tier 1 than to make customers run through the gauntlet because you only allow Tier 3 to do certain things. I want to share my support customer journey this week–not to complain, but to prompt some reflection on the CX implications of well-intentioned support policies. A week and […]
Intelligent Swarming: An Update
I recently attended a Consortium for Service Innovation team meeting on intelligent swarming. We got updates from PTC, Cisco, Red Hat, Sage, and others about how swarming was working in their support centers. Eleven years after our first presentation to the Consortium about swarming (which we then called “Betty,” for obscure reasons), I think it’s […]